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We're all going to die (sometime)

Past experience and probability theory can be used to check the odds of your football team winning or judge the risks of activities such as riding motorcycles, taking illegal drugs, going into hospital or just living. Things get more difficult when we don't fully understand what is going on, like early on in the swine flu epidemic, or when we are dealing with huge complexity, as in climate change. Then it can be helpful to admit what we don't know.

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Thanks for posting this and other videos, its a great resource. Coming from a physics background I thought it was crazy just how many pupils (and parents/other teachers) believe that climate change is a myth, but its exactly what a social scientist would expect.
p.s. there was a good short NPR show on similar lines
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124008307